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KFAT, the Knitwear and Footwear Workers Union - KFAT is the knitwear, footwear and textile workers union. It represents 35,000 UK workers in the manufacture of hosiery, knitwear, lace, textiles, footwear, leather, leather products, and related trades such as factory shops and warehousing. Around 54% of its members are women.
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(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken KFAT National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades
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